Playing Contemporary Scenes: Thirty-one famous scenes and how to play them

by Gerald Lee Ratliff

Book Overview

Featured are the best scenes from leading plays by the most famous contemporary playwrights. An exceptional collection that challenges actors of all ages and experience levels. The scenes offer a wide spectrum of performance styles for vocal and physical interpretation. Playwrights include: Beckett, Pinter, Mamet, Durang, Foote, Wasserstein, Vogel, McLure, Innaurato, Meyers, Shue, Medoff and Steve Martin, as well as "new voice" contemporary playwrights...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566080258
• ISBN13: 9781566080255
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Meriwether Publishing
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"